University of North Texas opens The Rocky Horror Show this weekend

by PegNews wire

From March 27 - April 5, UNT's Department of Dance and Theatre is bringing the cult favorite, The Rocky Horror Show to their stage. Brad & Janet are two sexually confused middle class American kids who seek aide after having tire trouble on the way to visit an old college professor. They find help at Frankenstein Manor where they are confronted by the mad ‘doctor’ Frank N. Furter from the planet Transexual in the galaxy of Transylvania. With the doctor’s decedent morality, his servants Riff Raff, Magenta, and Columbia he has created an experiment, the perfect man christened Rocky Horror. Adrift in this world of science fiction, one never knows what to expect. The Rocky Horror Show is an outrageous classic of stereotyped science fiction movies, Marvel comics, Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello outings, and rock ‘n’ roll of every vintage.

UNT’s production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show is guest-directed by Bob Hess. Both onstage and on camera, he has worked extensively as both an actor and director in the Metroplex for the past 28 years, appearing and/or directing on the stages of Contemporary Theatre of Dallas (where he last staged Rocky Horror Show), Lyric Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Children’s Theater, WaterTower Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Uptown Players, Casa Manana, Theatre Three, Echo Theatre, Stage West, Second Thought Theatre, Theatre Arlington, and Granbury Opera House.

This production was designed by students and UNT faculty and staff: Rosana Avina (Scenic Design – student), Barbara C, Cox (Costume Design – faculty), Suzanne Shockley (Costume Design – staff), Kenneth Farnsworth (Lighting Design – student), Brooks Willhoite (Sound Design – student), Josh Baker (Properties Design – student), Katarina Kosmopoulos (Makeup Design – student).

Audience participation is welcomed for this particular production. The Department of Dance and Theatre’s student organization University Players will be selling “prop bags” for the audience to purchase at $3 per bag or two bags for $5. These bags will be filled with items such as newspapers, noisemakers, and playing cards all of which the audience members can use during the production. The audience members are encouraged to come in costume, or to dance, sing, and shout out in the typical Rocky Horror fashion.

Tickets can be ordered with a credit card over the phone by calling 940-565-2428 or Metro 817-267-3731 ext. 2428.

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